You'd think Lawrence Krauss would have learned from his staunch defense of Jeffery Epstein - nothing makes you look more like a pedophile and sexual harasser than acting like known pedophiles and sexual harassers are an over-persecuted class of people.
Academia is usually the last to wake up and smell the coffee on any trend run too far. Marcy should fight back with legal action against both the journals and those making preposterous claims which defame him.
...where he is accused of having "helped bring about the state of affairs in the academy that [he is] now lamenting — in which woke ideology subverts all that they deem precious in the academy and science".
> After a six-month investigation, Geoff Marcy — a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been mentioned as a potential Nobel laureate — was found to have violated campus sexual harassment policies between 2001 and 2010. Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping.
> As a result of the findings, the women were informed, Marcy has been given “clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students,” which he must follow or risk “sanctions that could include suspension or dismissal.”
> As word has spread that Marcy was not more severely disciplined, some fellow astronomers have begun speaking out about his behavior, asking for stronger sanctions and even telling him that he is not welcome at his field’s biggest annual gathering.
(Quillette characterizes this as "a (weak) preponderance-of-the-evidence standard", which is not the same as saying it was wrong, or highlighting the proper standard.)
and
> Harvard astronomy professor John Asher Johnson was a graduate student in Marcy’s lab from 2000 to 2007. During his first few years in the lab, Johnson told BuzzFeed News, he directly witnessed Marcy giving an undergraduate a back massage, with his hand underneath her shirt, alone and after hours in the lab.
It reminds us of the potentially brilliant people who were denied the opportunity to become astronomers:
> She didn’t register an official complaint until eight years later, by which time she’d left astronomy — in part, she said, because of the sexual harassment she and other female astronomers experienced. “When you’re a student and you see every complaint being ignored, and every male professor who has violated that have zero consequences, it really makes you not want to step forward,” she said.
Nor is it confined to a single campus. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/geoff-ma... points out "Famous Astronomer Accused Of Sexual Harassment At His Previous Job, Too". Quillette characterizes it as "treating students as friends, hugging them or kissing them on the forehead" but that's citing Marcy as the source. From the BuzzFeed article we see a different story, like - "One day in 1995, she recalled, Marcy touched her breast when they were in a private meeting together" and "He would also play with her hair or brush up against her with his legs, she said, “often resulting in his crotch touching me.”"
Nor can you say it's 'campus' as the National Academy of Scientists, which expelled him, is not a campus, but part of the broader term "academia."
Puritans were not known for supporting women's equality nor their views on consent, so calling this opposition "Campus Puritans" is doubly wrong.
From this article:
> how was lead author Weiss (a junior faculty member, it should be remembered) induced to withdraw the paper with its current author list except through mob bullying tactics?
How bizarre. Quillette emphasized the "junior" to suggest, what, that the lead author wasn't capable of doing the work without more senior faculty?
Because it's usually the other way around - the junior faculty members face bullying tactics to add senior faculty to the author list. The only reason is isn't "mob bullying tactics" is because there are too few senior faculty, compared to junior ...
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] threadI assume you meant "appalling" here
https://evolutionnews.org/2023/12/how-scientific-materialism...
> After a six-month investigation, Geoff Marcy — a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been mentioned as a potential Nobel laureate — was found to have violated campus sexual harassment policies between 2001 and 2010. Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping.
> As a result of the findings, the women were informed, Marcy has been given “clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students,” which he must follow or risk “sanctions that could include suspension or dismissal.”
> As word has spread that Marcy was not more severely disciplined, some fellow astronomers have begun speaking out about his behavior, asking for stronger sanctions and even telling him that he is not welcome at his field’s biggest annual gathering.
(Quillette characterizes this as "a (weak) preponderance-of-the-evidence standard", which is not the same as saying it was wrong, or highlighting the proper standard.)
and
> Harvard astronomy professor John Asher Johnson was a graduate student in Marcy’s lab from 2000 to 2007. During his first few years in the lab, Johnson told BuzzFeed News, he directly witnessed Marcy giving an undergraduate a back massage, with his hand underneath her shirt, alone and after hours in the lab.
It reminds us of the potentially brilliant people who were denied the opportunity to become astronomers:
> She didn’t register an official complaint until eight years later, by which time she’d left astronomy — in part, she said, because of the sexual harassment she and other female astronomers experienced. “When you’re a student and you see every complaint being ignored, and every male professor who has violated that have zero consequences, it really makes you not want to step forward,” she said.
Nor is it confined to a single campus. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/geoff-ma... points out "Famous Astronomer Accused Of Sexual Harassment At His Previous Job, Too". Quillette characterizes it as "treating students as friends, hugging them or kissing them on the forehead" but that's citing Marcy as the source. From the BuzzFeed article we see a different story, like - "One day in 1995, she recalled, Marcy touched her breast when they were in a private meeting together" and "He would also play with her hair or brush up against her with his legs, she said, “often resulting in his crotch touching me.”"
Nor can you say it's 'campus' as the National Academy of Scientists, which expelled him, is not a campus, but part of the broader term "academia."
Puritans were not known for supporting women's equality nor their views on consent, so calling this opposition "Campus Puritans" is doubly wrong.
From this article:
> how was lead author Weiss (a junior faculty member, it should be remembered) induced to withdraw the paper with its current author list except through mob bullying tactics?
How bizarre. Quillette emphasized the "junior" to suggest, what, that the lead author wasn't capable of doing the work without more senior faculty?
Because it's usually the other way around - the junior faculty members face bullying tactics to add senior faculty to the author list. The only reason is isn't "mob bullying tactics" is because there are too few senior faculty, compared to junior ...